Jeff McCarrthy, Berke Moses, Didi Conn In Steve Martin Adaptation

George Bartenieff, Didi Conn, Jenny Leona, Jeff McCarthy, Burke Moses and Steve Routmanmake up the cast ofSteve Martin’s “The Underpants” which will bow at New Haven’sLong Wharf TheatreOct. 16 to Nov. 10 before coming to Hartford Stage in Jan. 9 to Feb. 9.

Long Wharf artistic director Gordon Edelstein stages the work which Martin adapted from the 1911 German farce by Carl Sternheim.

McCarthy was previously at Long Wharf in “The Price” and “The Front Page” and was Broadway’s “Urinetown.” Conn is best know as Frenchy, the beauty school drop-out, in “Grease” and “Grease II” and starring roles in “You Light Up My Life,” “The Magic Show,” and “Thomas and the Magic Railroad.” Moses was in Goodspeed’s “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and was in Broadway’s “The Frogs,” “Kiss Me Kate” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Routman was inBroadway’s “LaBete.”

Bartenieff made his Broadway debut in 1947’s “The Whole World Over,” directed by Harold Clurman; off-Broadway he was in the ‘60s productions of “Krapp’s Last Tape,” “The Zoo Story” and “The Brig.” Leona is a recent graduate of The Juilliard Drama Division.